Elizabeth Warren Agrees That the DNC Primary Was Rigged for Hillary Clinton

In what was presumed to be a rigged system by many, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, agreed Thursday to a similar allegation recently made by Donna Brazile, the Democratic National Committee chair.

That specific accusation by Brazile was that Hillary Clinton’s campaign manipulated the Democratic nomination system to work in Clinton’s favor.

Warren was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper about Brazile’s claim and offered a one-word response: “Yes.”

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In an excerpt from the book published by Politico, Brazile said that an August 2015 agreement gave the Clinton campaign what amounted to full control over what the party did and how it spent its money.

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In her book, Brazile said the agreement “sure looked unethical.”

“If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity,” Brazile wrote.

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Warren said the Democratic Party must right itself.

“But what we’ve got to do as Democrats now, is we’ve got to hold this party accountable,” Warren said.

Warren’s comments were noted on Twitter as a sign of Clinton’s fading star.

Warren said the allegations Brazile wrote are a “real problem” and called on DNC chairman Tom Perez to unite the party.

“When …Tom Perez was first elected chair of the DNC, the very first conversation I had with him (was) to say, you have got to put together a Democratic Party in which everybody can have confidence that the party is working for Democrats, rather than Democrats are working for the party,” Warren said. “And he’s being tested now.”

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She added that the party must incorporate the legion of Bernie Sanders supporters into the mainstream of its existence.

“Either he’s going to succeed by bringing Bernie Sanders and Bernie Sanders’ representatives into this process and they’re going to say ‘it’s fair, it works, we all believe it,’ or he’s going to fail.”

Warren is considered a likely candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2020.